Becker's Healthcare January 18, 2022
A perfect storm of factors – aging workforce and patients, job burnout and the pandemic, to name a few – has contributed to the growing chasm of supply and demand in nursing, anticipating an estimated shortage of half a million US RN jobs by 2030, according to one study.1 To keep caregiving operations running, hospitals are scrambling to employ internal stop-gap measures, like cross-functioning other specialists to work extra hours and repurposing non-clinical staff to perform duties primarily covered by nurses. Band-aids, at best.
Externally, this recent season of crisis medicine has launched travel nursing placement in a stratospheric trajectory, up 75% since pre-pandemic 2019.2 Originally a cottage industry that began in the ‘70’s, the travel nursing niche has now...
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